544 Quotes About Directors

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.

A lot of them are easy, because the directors have engendered such good will,

The schedule prepared by the directors and sent for confirmation anticipates a launch on the stock market in July.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On Garden State I did different lines on every take, just making crap up. And it was great each time.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.